ComputerBase took a look at the new Kaby Lake based Pentiums last week. Wow. It's a desktop i3 with the Pentium name tacked on. This must be Intel's low end early counter for AMD Zen...erm..Ryzen. Effectively an i3 for $65-85.

For a gaming computer there must be a disclaimer though:Some new games, like Forza Horizon 3, will simply refuse to run unless you have an "approved" CPU (meaning newish Core i5 or better). So these new Pentiums will work fine as long as the games accept them at all.

Personally im disapointed on Kaby Lake, as i have been with the past 6 gens of intel, no real gains, just marginal. Seems next gen we might get an i7 six core.... hope we dont get another quad, hope also that AMD Rezen does good and puts some pressure to intel.

For a gaming computer there must be a disclaimer though:Some new games, like Forza Horizon 3, will simply refuse to run unless you have an "approved" CPU (meaning newish Core i5 or better). So these new Pentiums will work fine as long as the games accept them at all.

As for games that will fail to load unless you meet the min performance specs with a newish CPU and GPU, I haven't come across one. Sure, they might exclude an older CPU because it fails to have a current instruction set or processing capability or a GPU for the lack of DX-whatever, other than that it'll load the game - maybe at crappy stuttery slideshow like framerates, but it'll load.

That said, it's always worthwhile to look at the min specs and review benchmarks b4 getting a game.

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